Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

last month laid down a wide-ranging executive order targeting generative AI , dealing with everything from safety and security measures, to issues related to bias and civil rights, and oversight over how genAI is produced. On the surface, the order sounds like a comprehensive and powerful one. But is it really?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 13, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 feels a bit like déjà vu to me. Back in 2001, as I was just entering the venture industry, I remember the typical VC reaction to a start-up pitch was, “Can’t Microsoft replicate your product with 20 people and a few months of effort, given the resources they have?”

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot in a prerecorded event Thursday morning. Microsoft was encroaching onto Google’s turf when it announced an AI-powered Bing search engine last month. But for Microsoft, the stakes are much higher in productivity than in search.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In a recent report by cloud security firm Wiz, it has come to light that Microsoft's AI research division inadvertently exposed a staggering 38 terabytes of sensitive data due to a misconfiguration involving Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens. In response to the incident, Microsoft acted swiftly and decisively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2023

Today’s consumers are accustomed to smooth, frictionless online shopping – and they increasingly expect the same kind of digital experiences from their banks. In addition, banks struggle to maintain customer data privacy, security, and compliance amid changing regulatory requirements. Insider Intelligence found that 89% of U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In a bold move that promises to redefine the way users interact with their computers, Microsoft has announced the integration of a dedicated Copilot button on the keyboards of its Windows PCs. Copilot AI: what is it? With the introduction of the Copilot button, users can now enjoy instant access to a range of AI-driven features.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Musician Krist Novoselic speaks during Microsoft’s annual meeting. Video via Microsoft webcast) Is Microsoft moving too quickly to capitalize on artificial intelligence at the expense of long-term shareholder value? That was a key question at the company’s shareholder meeting Thursday morning.

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GeekWire

APRIL 5, 2023

Finalists for the 2023 GeekWire Innovation of the Year award, clockwise from upper left: the Yoodli team; Byron Boots of Overland AI; Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev of Temporal; Ghostwriter developer Patrick Husting; and Sam Browd of Proprio. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2024

(TrueMedia image) Seattle-based nonprofit TrueMedia.org released a free AI-powered media verification tool Tuesday to help journalists and fact-checkers detect deepfakes and combat misinformation ahead of upcoming U.S. The tool stated with 100% confidence that the video contained AI-generated imagery.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

With cloud adoption, retailers have been successful and with emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on cloud, they can break the barriers. A cloud-first approach to modernization supported by AI should ensure that technology investments are in lockstep with the retailer’s business model and objectives.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI, questions have arisen regarding the continued relevance of the CIO title and whether it accurately reflects the evolving nature of the job. That is a huge conflict of interest. Is the CIO title obsolete?

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Vox

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Over the next two days, OpenAI employees as well as Microsoft , an OpenAI partner and investor, pushed to bring Altman back. at Microsoft. Then along came generative AI and ChatGPT, new technology that is cool and exciting to everyone from the average consumer to one of the most valuable companies in the world.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 11, 2024

Elon Musk recently announced that his AI venture, xAI, will be making Grok, its chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, openly available this week. This move comes shortly after Musk took legal action against OpenAI, criticizing the organization for moving away from its open-source beginnings, despite being supported by Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Our people make the difference” — a common catchphrase of Walmart founder Sam Walton — still guides the company’s path forward as it ventures into the future with generative AI. The move places Walmart among a handful of companies (aside from tech giants) that have leveraged generative AI at scale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. But the emergence of generative AI changes everything. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

From left: U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm; SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang; and Jason Zander, Microsoft executive vice president of strategic mission and technologies; came together for an event at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle to discuss AI and clean energy. Maria Cantwell; U.S.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2024

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. … Read More Lumen Orbit emerges from stealth and raises $2.4M … Read More Lumen Orbit emerges from stealth and raises $2.4M Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 10, 2024. … Read More .

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Generative AI takes a front seat As for that AI strategy, American Honda’s deep experience with machine learning positions it well to capitalize on the next wave: generative AI. The ascendent rise of generative AI last year has applied pressure on CIOs across all industries to tap its potential.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Highly regulated, customer-centric, and dependent on layers of human involvement and manual processes, financial services are ripe for automation through artificial intelligence (AI). Those same characteristics, however, reveal the risks AI pose to this sector. AI is not the future of financial services — it’s the present.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2023

Technology is truly powering retail transformation, setting modern stores apart from traditional brick-and-mortar ones. At the same time, companies must maintain secure environments and prevent fraud. Modern retailers rely heavily on automation for managing inventory, shelf design, customer service, and logistics.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella described his company’s role in a new economy and society transformed by the pandemic in a keynote address on Tuesday kicking off Microsoft’s virtual 2021 Ignite developer conference. GeekWire File Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

Generative AI such as ChatGPT has of late captured the imagination of business leaders across industries. CarMax’s IT team, for one, has been working with Microsoft and OpenAI to leverage GPT-3.x First-mover AI benefits CarMax’s IT leaders and IT staff were experimenting with OpenAI’s GPT-3.x billion overall.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

(Nordstrom Photo) — Nicole Ford joined Nordstrom as chief information security officer. Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity programs. Minesh Shah, Omnidian president. Founded in 2015, Kirkland, Wash. .

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon’s custom silicon, including its chips for advanced artificial intelligence, will be in the spotlight this week as Amazon Web Services tries to stake its claim in the new era of AI at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. In the realm of AI, these chips provide an alternative to general-purpose silicon. I spent $7.23

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As enterprises increasingly look to artificial intelligence (AI) to support, speed up, or even supplant human decision-making, calls have rung out for AI’s use and development to be subject to a higher power: our collective sense of right and wrong. Impartiality : AI systems must not follow or create biases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Like other CIOs, Katrina Redmond has been inundated with opportunities to deploy AI that promise to speed business and operations processes, and optimize workflows. To be successful, an AI proof of concept (PoC) project also needs to make good business sense, says CIO Vikram Nafde, CIO at Connecticut-based Webster Bank.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

By mid-2023, Walldorf-based Gerresheimer had its IT strategy revised, and a central component of this was its cloud journey, for which CIO Zafer Nalbant and his team built a hybrid environment consisting of a public cloud part based on Microsoft Azure, and a private cloud part that runs in a data center completely managed by T-Systems.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Microsoft is currently under fire because of its chatbot Bing Chat. Bing Chat , the AI-powered chatbot from Microsoft, has been caught up in a cybersecurity storm. When consumers linger over these sponsored links, the advertisement appears before the natural search results, which could result in security flaws.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2024

” The agency’s CES booth is funded in part by a trade promotion grant from the U.S. ai LaMo Seattle-based ai LaMo has been dubbed the “Duolingo for AI,” making AI education accessible for everyone. The platform blends gamification with practical AI tool interactions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

OpenAI’s November 2022 announcement of ChatGPT and its subsequent $10 billion in funding from Microsoft were the “shots heard ’round the world” when it comes to the promise of generative AI. in concert with Microsoft’s AI-optimized Azure platform. John Spottiswood, COO of Jerry, a Palo Alto, Calif.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Enterprises are looking to AI to boost productivity and innovation, and one-third of organizations with an interest in the technology have hired or are looking for a chief AI officer, according to new research from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. Software vendors have been busy infusing generative AI into their products.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2024

The annual event, now in its 15th year, brought a sold-out crowd to Showbox SoDo in Seattle, where more than 60 finalists across a dozen categories competed for awards ranging from Startup of the Year to Next Tech Titan to Workplace of the Year, and more. Other finalists: Kevala, Overland AI, Shipium, and SingleFile.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 16, 2023

Gamma AI is a great tool for those who are looking for an AI-powered cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tool to protect Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. DLP solutions help organizations comply with data privacy regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and others ( Image Credit ) What is Gamma AI?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

ChatGPT has turned everything we know about AI on its head. AI encompasses many things. Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are only one aspect of AI. But it’s the well-known part of AI. It’s the culmination of a decade of work on deep learning AI. Here is some guidance.

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Vox

MAY 11, 2023

The Biden administration has a lot of cutting-edge technology on its plate, from quantum computers like the one above to generative AI. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Is DC doomed to make the same mistakes with AI that it made with social media? AI isn’t new, and neither are attempts to regulate it.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2023

At the Vatican this week, L-R: Maximo Torero Cullen, FAO Chief Economist; Darío Gil, Global Vice President of IBM; Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft; Mons. Photo courtesy Microsoft.). Photo courtesy Microsoft). I think it’s a powerful force. Pope Francis greets Brad Smith as Mons.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2024

One need only look within Ford’s executive ranks to see the technology talent driving its digital future: Doug Field, Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV) and digital systems officer, and Rob Bedicheck, executive director of platform architecture, were both recruited from Apple.

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